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Garden Therapy
Stockings and Eggs:
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Tammy Dellinger 770-287-9474
Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital
Volunteer Services
1305 Redmond Circle
Rome, Georgia 30165
Members decorate Christmas stockings
and Easter eggs for NWGA
Regional
Hospital, Rome, GA. Money is sent in
March and December.
These items are
often the only gifts received by the
patients and they are very proud of
them. The patients decorate their
rooms with the stockings and eggs or
wear them as corsages. |
Garden Therapy
Fig Leaves:
Chairman:
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Tammy Dellinger 770-287-9474
Taken to District Meeting and then to:
Northwest Georgia Regional
Hospital
Volunteer Services
1305 Redmond Circle
Rome, Georgia
30165
Our members purchase new underwear
socks, and handkerchiefs. We also
collect personal items such as jewelry
and toilet articles throughout
the year.
These items are greatly appreciated by
the residents of
Northwest Georgia
Regional Hospital |
Mobile Phone
Recycling:
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Linda Cornett 770-536-8285
Members bring in old mobile phones and
their accessories. These
are taken to
"Keep Hall Beautiful" at 604 Green Street,
Gainesville. They re-configure the phones
to be used by women at
risk in case of an
emergency. Doing this project, keeps these
items out of landfills, and puts them back in
the hands of women
who need them. |
Civic Center Garden:
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Margaret Carter Jones 770-532-1119
Gainesville Civic Center
Members maintain the club's garden
installed in the spring of 2000. The
chair-
man prepares a work schedule for the year
and members are
assigned a month in
which they are to take care of the garden.
Members
report at monthly meetings on
work done and the condition of the garden.
All reports are filed in our Garden Binder.
The chairman and her
committee decides
what seasonal plantings will be done. Club
members
benefit from knowledge learned
in planting and caring for the garden. The
garden is in a highly visible area and
enjoyed by the community
as they drive by. |
The Crabapple Tree at the Civic Center
Crabapple Seedlings Youth Garden Club:
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Cheryl Hinderscheid 770-532-3168
Pam Kuchler 770-983-3168
Enota Elementary School
1340 Enota Avenue NE
Gainesville, GA
Crabapple sponsors a youth garden
club in a kindergarten class at Enota
Elementary school. Members help
present programs and assist in pro-
jects.
The Seedlings have their own
garden in which they plant bulbs and
various other plants. The Seedlings will
be studying birds, and learn about
their
native habitat and how to identify differ-
ent bird calls. They and their
family will
be encouraged to participate in The
Great Backyard Bird Count. The
Seedlings learn about Smokey Bear
and Woodsy Owl and then enter the
GCG poster contest. The club meets
twice a month. |
Pam Kuchler (back left), Cheryl Hinderscheid (back right),
with Students (Crabapple Seedlings)
Bird Tree with Students in Front
Ronald McDonald House:
Chairman:
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Sarah Pickard 678-571-0160
Members collect tabs from aluminum cans.
The tabs are sent to the
Ronald McDonald
House and sold for recycling. We also
bring in empty
ink cartridges which are
mailed directly to Ronald McDonald in pre-
paid envelopes supplied by them. The pro-
ceeds go to further the work of
the house,
which is used as a place for families to stay
while their child
is in the hospital. |
Plant 4 Schools:
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Margaret Carter Jones 770-532-1119
Gainesville Public School
Crabapple plants a flowering crabapple
tree at a local school each
year on Arbor
Day. Members present a program for
Arbor Day with the
Seedlings Youth
Garden Club. The Seedlings learn about
the history of
Arbor Day and the import-
ance of trees in our world. This has been
an ongoing project for the last 6 years. |
Great Backyard Bird Count:
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Cheryl Hinderscheid 770-532-3562
Club meetings and members' backyards.
Several members have participated in
The Great Backyard Bird Count since
2006 and shared their experience with
Crabapple members. Their
excitement
in taking part encouraged us to do so
as a group. The
chairman will present
information and points on recognizing
birds common in our area at all of our
regular meetings. Members will
count
birds in their yards February 13-16,
2009 and report our findings
online at
www.audubon.org/gbbc. This chair-
man will also do a series of
programs
on birds with the Seedlings Youth
Garden Club. By helping
document
where birds are, and tracking changes
in their number to
previous years, we
will all benefit in this important
research. |
Church Floral Designs:
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Members do altar flowers for their
churches on a regular basis. Members
are: Kathy Haynes, Pam Kuchler,
Malvina Moffett, Caroline Silcox, and
Jan Smith, Sarah Pickard. |
The Garden Club of Georgia President, Sara
Lanier's
"Special Projects" for
her administration are membership
and litter. Our club is supporting Sara's
projects by
adopting them for the second year.
Membership - "Come, Grow With Us"
Chairman:
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Tammy Dellinger 770-287-9474
Our members are encouraged to invite
friends to attend and join
Crabapple Garden
Club. |
Litter - "Pick up for Georgia, Keep it Green and Clean"
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Willia Banks 770-536-5503
Hall and Dawson County
Members pick up litter while caring for our
garden at the Civic Center. We
will also
work diligently to keep our cities and
counties "Green and
Clean" by picking up
trash and recycling household items. |
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